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Date: July 8th, 2018 2:47 PM

Author: butt cheeks

Remember when the dead sailor’s mother stood up at the press conference and asked why her son wasn’t rescued and she got rushed by a couple of goons and one of them plunged a syringe full of sedative into her neck on camera and knocked her out cold? on camera?

The mother of a sailor who died on board the Kursk submarine denied that she had been forcibly given a tranquilizer to stop her berating a government minister earlier this week, Agence France Presse reported.

"They gave me a shot in the presence of my husband because I did not feel well. It is my husband who turned to a doctor for help," Nadya Tylik, 42, told AFP by telephone from her home town of Vidyayevo, the Far North submarine base.

Tylik, whose son Sergei, 25, died on board the submarine, told AFP that she had a heart condition and that the injection contained medication rather than a sedative.

Television footage of the mother being given an injection at a meeting inn Vidyayevo was widely shown on Western television with commentary that claimed the mother was deliberately sedated after she verbally attacked Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov.

An editorial in The Times of London described it as "chilling footage" of "an inexcusable assault on human dignity." The Times drew parallels with the old KGB practice of using medicine and psychiatry to punish dissidents.

"I categorically deny that they gave me a shot to stop me from talking," AFP quoted Tylik as saying. Tylik accused the Western media of spreading "lots of lies," the agency reported.

One woman, Nadezhda Tylik, despairing the loss of her son Sergei, screamed to the hapless Putin, “You’re swine.”

“They’re dying down there in a tin can for $50 a month and you don’t care,” she continued.

Immediately, a woman sidled up behind Tylik and plunged a syringe of sedatives into her side. The grieving woman collapsed and was spirited out. A Russian TV crew that was allowed into the port caught the event. The footage enraged international audiences but never aired in Russia. Vidyayevo Naval officials confirmed to me on August 25, 2000 that the injection had indeed been intended to shut Tylik up.

It was at this meeting that Putin chose who was to blame for the Kursk disaster: the oligarchs who owned Russia’s independent media.

“There are people in television today who … over the last 10 years destroyed the very army and fleet where people are dying now… They stole money, they bought the media and they’re manipulating public opinion,” he offered the stricken families by way of condolences, according to the Guardian. When asked why he’d waited so long to return from his Sochi vacation after learning of the disaster, he insisted: “They’re lying. They’re lying. They’re lying.”

He further blustered he would punish media owners for trying to discredit him, and would derail their attacks by creating alternative “honest and objective” media, the Guardian continued.

The war had begun.

By April, 2001, NTV, oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky’s swashbuckling news organization, was in the hands of Gazprom, Russia’s natural gas monopoly and a corporate state within a state, and Gusinksy himself was facing tax evasion charges, which were later dropped.

Boris Berezovksy, owner of ORT Television, ran afoul of Putin, and fearing arrest, fled for England. ORT’s restoration as a purely pro-Kremlin mouthpiece was assured. The rest of Russia’s national television stations soon fell into line.